May 23, 2018

MRS 045: Catherine Meyers

31 minutes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Catherine Meyers

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Catherine Meyers. Catherine first got into programming after a significant career change from being an opera singer to being a developer. Friends of hers suggested that she begin a programming career and she hasn’t looked back since. They talk about boot camps, such as Flatiron School, the importance of life-long learning, how she got into Ruby, and why she loves the language so much.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues Episode 354

Newest member on the Ruby Rogues Panel

How did you first get into programming?

Relatively new to programming

Career change from opera singer to programmer

Didn’t grow up thinking she would be a programmer

Friends pushed her to programming

Taught herself HTML

Used Codeacademy, Team Treehouse, and Code School

Boot camps

Rejected from Flatiron School originally

Not everyone gets into code the same way, and that’s okay

Coding takes hard work

No successful programming career is automatic

The importance of life-long learning

How did you get into Ruby?

Ruby is such a fun and great language to start with

High-level language

Full-stack developer

Red Antler

Bias towards front-end development

2 types of front-end development

Talk to people of different backgrounds

And much, much more!

Links:

Ruby Rogues Episode 354

Codeacademy

Team Treehouse

Code School

Flatiron School

Ruby

Red Antler

@CCMeyers324

CatherineMeyers.com

Picks:

Charles

Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

S.W.E.A.T. Pledge

Catherine

Schubert - Unfinished Symphony No. 8

GeoGuessr

Sharing the Work by Myra Strober

...more

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May 23, 2018

MRS 045: Catherine Meyers

31 minutes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Catherine Meyers

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues Episode 354

Newest member on the Ruby Rogues Panel

How did you first get into programming?

Relatively new to programming

Career change from opera singer to programmer

Didn’t grow up thinking she would be a programmer

Friends pushed her to programming

Taught herself HTML

Used Codeacademy, Team Treehouse, and Code School

Boot camps

Rejected from Flatiron School originally

Not everyone gets into code the same way, and that’s okay

Coding takes hard work

No successful programming career is automatic

The importance of life-long learning

How did you get into Ruby?

Ruby is such a fun and great language to start with

High-level language

Full-stack developer

Red Antler

Bias towards front-end development

2 types of front-end development

Talk to people of different backgrounds

And much, much more!

Links:

Ruby Rogues Episode 354

Codeacademy

Team Treehouse

Code School

Flatiron School

Ruby

Red Antler

@CCMeyers324

CatherineMeyers.com

Picks:

Charles

Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

S.W.E.A.T. Pledge

Catherine

Schubert - Unfinished Symphony No. 8

GeoGuessr

Sharing the Work by Myra Strober

...more

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